Freeman is as busy as ever and has basically made a cottage industry over the last 20 years of playing cool older dudes in all variety of Hollywood hits like Last Vegas, the Dark Knight trilogy and now Going in Style.

"I've been playing 'old' for a long time," he joked. "I had a drama teacher once that told me that no-one old has un-broken movements and that I should imagine that my testicles were glass balls – that's how I go about – I just walk very carefully!"

Err, okay. Meanwhile, 84-year-old Michael Caine will actually have to play younger as he stars opposite Sir Michael Gambon, Ray Winstone and Jim Broadbent in a movie about the notorious Hatton Garden heist.

"In that one I play young – a 73-year-old. I'll have lots of make-up for that," he teased.